Rainfall I think, went like this: Friday 0, Saturday 6, Sunday 3, Monday 2. We are actually gettting a little reprise right now, but it probably won't add up to much more than 3 or 4 mil's for the day.
We have been getting a lot of cloud and a little rain. And lots of wind.
The batteries were dangerously low on Saturday, so we shut down the inverter for most of the day. Geoff who is running on the electric fridge was very understanding about transferring perishables into his cooler.
Luckily I passed Chris Cookman on the road coming back from dropping Lorinda at the airport and he promised to come around as promised to "dial in" the generator. I had almost decided that further adjustment would be futile, and was getting seriously depressed about the $1600 cost of a new one. But he came around and with a 1/8th turn adjusment of the governor adjustment screw got it to where the inverter will accept the genny's output. So, that is sort of cool. Still wish we had a fancy biodiesel kind. Cookman sells one that is warrantied to run biodiesel for $5000...

So, Lorinda went to Oahu twice this week to take examinations to get into teacher training. That is how dedicated she is to us owning our piece of land... In the process she managed to pick up some terrible sickness, which has meant that I have been the primary carer for her, and Lichen, and our new dog Ruby Dingo. It is all a bit of a handful... Ruby and Uzi are definitely having some issues, but I'm sure it will all blow over. People laugh at me when I say that Ruby is the property's new guard dog, because she is sort of small and sweet looking, but she is ten times Uzura's size and her bark is somewhat more intimidating.
Oh, and Lorinda also brought back water chestnuts, so now I am going to do some quick research and find out the optimum way to get them to grow...